FARMINGTON — A lawyer representing a fourth-grader who sustained head trauma and hearing loss after a student at Henry Wilson Memorial School kicked him in the face plans to file a lawsuit against SAU 61, the Farmington and Middleton School District.

Alfred Catalfo III, whose practice is located in Dover, said his client has suffered from a pattern of abuse at the hands of multiple students and the school has done nothing to stop it. The most egregious attack took place on April 15 when a student bit the victim’s thumb, punched him in the face, pushed him to the ground and then kicked him in the face.

The victim was brought to Barrington Walk In Care on Calef Highway, where Dr. Mark Bardo recommended he take acetaminophen and ice the sore areas. Bardo also instructed the family to monitor their child and bring him to the emergency room if his symptoms worsened.

In a letter sent Wednesday to the School District to notify the superintendent of his intent to file suit against SAU 61, the physical assaults began last June, when the victim was on the playground at Valley View Elementary School. The same student who kicked Catalfo’s client in April punched the boy in the face during an unprovoked attack, the letter claims.

According to Catalfo’s letter, the perpetrator was suspended from school for the remainder of the year.

Since then, the now 11-year-old boy was assaulted on the school bus while riding home, attacked in the bus line and hit on the head, punched in the face during an afterschool program and bullied on the playground, Catalfo contends.

The day before the April 15 incident, one of the victim’s teachers sat him behind the student who punched him in the face during an afterschool program.

“This perpetrator immediately began verbally abusing him. My client asked the teacher for assistance but she told him, ‘I don’t want to hear it,’” Catalfo stated in the letter sent to the district. “That same day, he again asked the teacher for help. The teacher replied that he should ask another teacher because, ‘I’m not helping you.’”

Catalfo said that the state’s anti-bullying statute does not allow for a private right of action to enforce it, but he intends to base the lawsuit against the district on negligence and negligent supervision grounds. A dollar amount has not been demanded, and Catalfo said he would allow the jury to determine fair compensation for the damages his client has suffered.

Superintendent Steve Welford said because the matter is a student-related issue and involves student confidentiality, he could not answer questions from the press on the matter. Welford said he received the letter Catalfo sent late Thursday afternoon and it has been forwarded to the district’s attorney.

The School Board will be informed of the situation today, Welford said.